New York city police on Friday announced the busting of what was described as “the biggest ID scam in American history” after arresting 111 people including Guyanese who allegedly made bogus credit cards as part of a Queens-based scam that cost consumers, banks and retailers a whopping US$13 million.
Election day is Monday, November 28, according to a Proclamation issued by President Jagdeo a short while ago.
The Office of the President has maintained that the Sharmas’ attempted to negotiate for a reduced suspension of their television station and accused the couple of “dishonesty of the highest order.”
(Jamaica Observer) Herman Webb is an angry man.The 65-year-old says that Noranda Bauxite Company has been giving him, his neighbours and hundreds of residents in districts neighbouring the community of Stepney in South East St Ann a raw deal.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Three weeks after reports of skin-tone discrimination in Jamaica’s job market hit the fan, the Government’s job placement and training agency – HEART Trust/NTA – has announced that internal investigations have yielded no proof that the agency has ever received requests from employers for light-skinned trainees to fill vacancies at their establishments.
(Barbados Nation) A dedicated whistleblower hotline for employees to anonymously report white-collar crime and other wrongdoing in their workplaces is about to go live in Barbados.
(Trinidad Express) A decline in drug trafficking has caused the murder rate to increase in Trinidad and Tobago, according to a recent report from the United Nations.
Less than two months after a car careened off the East Bank Demerara Highway into the upper flat of the Razack house at lot 35 Bagotstown Public Road, another car slammed into the front fence at the same location early yesterday morning.
CAPE TOWN – China is built on lies and its officials are hypocrites, the Dalai Lama said today, speaking via videophone after visa problems prevented him from joining Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s birthday celebrations in South Africa.
Seven persons, including an Essequibo vendor, were yesterday injured in a vehicle collision which took place in the vicinity of Middlesex, Pomeroon.
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Thousands of Kenyans paid their respects to Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai on Saturday at a state funeral held in a park where she had once been beaten up for holding a protest.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The police will be targeting the main players in criminal gangs across the country next year.
(Jamaica Observer) Police Commissioner Owen Ellington yesterday described as “unacceptable” the explanation given for Thursday’s fatal shooting of two men who were in police custody, and has since ordered a “speedy and thorough” probe into the incident.
(Trinidad Guardian) Port-of-Spain mayor Louis Lee Sing says the Government has not done anything after 16 months in office to alleviate the problem of street dwellers in the capital.
Rights activist Ramon Gaskin was this afternoon chopped several times about the body during an armed robbery at his Campbellville home.
The mentally ill woman who is accused of slashing the throat of a 39-year-old father of two has been taken into custody by the police.
The Ministry of Home Affairs says that Guyana is not among the 22 countries worldwide that appear on the US Drug list which drives home the point that this country is not a narco-state.
Four young men were hospitalized this morning after the car they were in collided with a utility pole on Homestretch Avenue, breaking it into two, and then continued another 100 feet before coming to a halt.
A Brazilian miner is now a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), after he was shot in the back at a mining camp at Butterfly Backdam, Port Kaituma.
Police have captured the suspect in the July murder of Pomeroon resident, Alexis Smith.
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